Psychoanalysis Books
Phantoms of the Clinic: From Thought-Transference to Projective Identification
As Freud predicted, there has always been great anxiety about the place of psychoanalysis in contemporary life, particularly in relation to its ambiguous and complicated relationship to the realm of... (more)
Trauma, Torture and Dissociation: A Psychoanalytic View
Theoretical material is presented in close conjunction with clinical data in the form of vignettes and case studies to illustrate the key points outlined in this book, which focuses on the... (more)
The Talking Cure: Wittgenstein's Therapeutic Method for Psychotherapy
One of Freud's central claims is that our words and actions reveal unrecognised confusions lying at the heart of our relationships with others and the world. Taking Freud at his word and sharing his... (more)
Psychotrauma, State, Setting: Psychoanalytical-Action-Related Model for a Treatment of Complexly Traumatized Patients (SPIM-20-CTP)
A complete conception of a psychotraumatologica treatment which is applicable to complex traumatized patients (representing the majorty of psychotrauma disorders in ambulant practices) as well as to... (more)
The Psychology of Aristotle, The Philosopher: A Psychoanalytic Therapist's Perspective
This title is an investigation into the works of Aristotle in which Charalambos Ierodiakonou extracts those parts which have a psychological or psychoanalytic interest. He classifies and comments on... (more)
Off the Couch: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Applications
The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative... (more)
Toward an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis: Brandchaft's Intersubjective Vision
Best known for his contributions to the development of contemporary intersubjectivity theory, Bernard Brandchaft has dedicated a career to the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice.... (more)
Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions, and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives
Can there be a relational criteria or paradigm for termination, and what would it include? How do treatment goals of the analyst and/or that of the patient affect the decision to terminate? How do... (more)
First Do No Harm: The Paradoxical Encounters of Psychoanalysis, Warmaking, and Resistance
At the outset of World War I - the "Great War" - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought. But the cruel truths of that bloody conflict, wrought on the psyches as much as... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations: Postmodernism, Complexity, and Neuroscience
Past scholars have tried to classify psychoanalysis as an intrinsically positivist science, with varying degrees of success. Their critics have fared little better with narrow applications of... (more)
The Artist's Mind: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Creativity, Modern Art and Modern Artists
For the past century psychoanalysts have attempted to understand the psychology of art, artists and aesthetic experience. This book examines how contemporary psychoanalytic theory provides insight... (more)
Longing for Nothingness: Resistance, Denial, and the Place of Death in the Nursing Home
In Longing for Nothingness: Resistance, Denial, and the Place of Death in the Nursing Home, Andrew Stein offers a groundbreaking new psychoanalytic treatment of the depression and other mental... (more)
Therapeutic Attachment Relationships: Interaction Structures and the Processes of Therapeutic Change
The seventy-five years that span the writings of Sigmund Freud and John Bowlby - two minds that have significantly shaped thinking about the processes of change in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis -... (more)
The Processes of Defense: Trauma, Drives, and Reality - A New Synthesis
In this direct and scholarly book, Dr. Joseph Fernando provides the first in-depth exploration and up-to-date revision of the psychoanalytic theory of defenses since Anna Freud's 1936 classic, The... (more)
Hypocrisy Unmasked: Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity
Hypocrisy Unmasked explores the motives, meanings, and mechanisms of hypocrisy, challenging two principal psychoanalytic assumptions: First, that hypocrisy expresses deviant, uncontrollable impulses... (more)
Freud on the Psychology of Ordinary Mental Life
This book works to expose that vision and to demonstrate its fertility for further inquiry. It reconstructs several of Freud's works on ordinary mental life, tracking his method of inquiry, in... (more)
Freud and the Far East: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the People and Culture of China, Japan, and Korea
This book is a lexical ambassador with the dual responsibility of bridging the West and East and enhancing psychoanalytic conceptualization in the course of such an encounter. By juxtaposing the... (more)
Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, the Personal Unconscious, and the Creative Process
Offers an original theory of the nature of meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) and their practical use from a naturalistic (nonsupernatural and non-Jungian) perspective. The findings are the... (more)
Eigen in Seoul: Volume 1: Madness and Murder
This book contains an eighteen hour seminar - given over a three day period - presented by Michael Eigen in Seoul, Korea, in 2007. The seminar traces transformations of madness and faith in... (more)
Mapping Psychic Reality: Triangulation, Communication, and Insight
This book is about how we can deepen our understanding of subjectivity through the use of the concept of triangulation. Fundamentally, this book seeks to address the question of how we can be... (more)
A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis
This book introduces a theoretical framework for studying the mind. Specifically, an attempt is made to frame ideas from psychoanalysis and cognitive-social psychology so that they can be taken... (more)
Ferenczi's Language of Tenderness: Working with Disturbances from the Earliest Years
Ferenczi identified the presence of a child in every analysis or therapy and distinguished between the languages of tenderness and passion in their appropriateness for such work. Using Ferenczi's... (more)
The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
The one thousand entries in this book provide the best single volume coverage of psychoanalysis available. With its wide, objective and catholic vision, the Encyclopaedia demonstrates that... (more)
A Woman's Unconscious Use of Her Body
Drawing on Dinora Pines' lifetime of clinical experience this classic book provides a psychoanalytic understanding of womens relationships with their bodies, focusing on key moments in women's... (more)
Under the Skin: A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification
Considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and... (more)
Sabert Basescu: Selected Papers on Human Nature and Psychoanalysis
An influential part of the New York psychoanalytic scene, Sabert "Sabe" Basescu is regarded as an outstanding analyst and a significant proponent of the integration of existentialism and... (more)
Get the Diagnosis Right: Assessment and Treatment Selection for Mental Disorders
In this remarkable book, Jerome Blackman allows all readers, from beginners through advanced analysts, to learn about the details of diagnosis of mental disturbance and specific recommendations for... (more)
Freud's Schreber Between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis: On Subjective Disposition to Psychosis
This book investigates what was distinctive about the predisposition to psychosis Freud posited in Daniel Paul Schreber, a presiding judge in Saxony's highest court. It argues that Freud's 1911... (more)
Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud and Other Essays in Re-Vision
In his latest groundbreaking book, Peter L. Rudnytsky examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted... (more)
Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process
'Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process is a rare book. It is lively and interesting, lucid, and yet profound. It succeeds where many other recent attempts to provide new insight about... (more)